The Economist has compiled a list of IT predictions for 2008

The Economist published a list of three of the most anticipated changes that will affect the information technology industry in the coming year.

First of all, the authors identify a list of further growth of the load on the data channels on the Web. Experts point out that there is now a massive surge of interest in various socially-oriented services, as well as services such as YouTube, Internet Television. Moreover, if the earlier users of the Internet, mostly, just downloaded the data on their computers, but now the massive amounts of information are transmitted in the opposite direction.

The growth of the volume of data transmitted over the Internet will promote new models of handheld devices and home appliances. According to staff Economist, soon every media player, digital camera, DVD-player and the TV will connect to the Net to get new information or communicate with other devices. Also, do not forget about the spammers, whose zeal led to that this year the proportion of litter has reached 90-95 % of the total number of letters sent by e-mail.

The largest ISPs are planning to improve network infrastructure, but the effect of increasing capacity, according to experts, is not immediately manifest itself. By the way, so that the Internet expects the crisis, agrees and Lawrence Roberts, one of the founders of the network ARPANet and founder of Anagran. Roberts points out that at present the amount of traffic sent across the network, doubling every year, while the cost of network equipment, primarily routers is reduced by half once a year and a half. Sooner or later, it can lead to economic crisis.

Further, employees of The Economist predicts that next year will increase the popularity of mobile Internet. To promote this initiative will be like the Google Android. The project Android, we recall, the search giant has created an operating system kernel based on Linux and open source components. Access to Android will be available under the terms of the license Apache, and the promotion of the platform on the market will Alliance Open Handset Alliance, part of which now includes dozens of famous companies. The owners of Android-based devices will be able to use any web services at their discretion, which in theory should increase the attractiveness of the mobile Internet.

Finally, according to reviewers Economist, in 2008, is expected to further increase interest in open source software in general and the Linux operating system in particular. The positive impact on the growth of market share open source software will have inexpensive personal computers with Linux, as well as the efforts of programmers to improve the user interface of open software platform.

By the way, Linus Torvalds, the creator of the original version of Linux is of the view that the share of the open source operating system will grow and the market of portable devices. However, now there is an increase in the popularity of Linux PC market. According to research Linux Foundation, an open operating system is the most popular among home users and small companies with up to 100 employees.

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